Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Moody

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

Margaret Mitchell

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Richard Russo

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

Edmund White

With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive.

James F. Cooper

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Sue Grafton

Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair.

Serge Lang

The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment.

Thomas Berger

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Lawrence Grossman

When you vaporize rock, there is very little hydrogen -- whereas 50 percent of the atoms in a rock are oxygen.

Helen Sharman

As the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere, it was coming in so fast, it heated up the surrounding atoms and molecules, and they became positively and negatively charged, and highly reactive, and began luminescing all around us.

Billy Rose

If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.

George Wald

We have to get rid of those atomic weapons, here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.

Max Heindel

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. It is a healthy energy.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God,

Von Hardesty

What he wanted to do was close a vulnerability to the West; to have an intercontinental, long-range bomber equal to the B-29, which became even more crucial after 1949 with the first Soviet atomic weapon.

James Logan

Years ago, how do you think they made the atomic bomb? ... By having people with the brains to do it.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Charles Spurgeon

Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

George Herbert

A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.

Neil Diamond

Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.

Richelle Mead

I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. “Who’s Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?” “They won’t accept the charges,” I murmured.